Message from the President: What’s next for UBC?

A message from Benoit-Antoine Bacon, President and Vice-Chancellor

As announced in July, UBC is launching a process to refresh its strategic plan, to define the university’s priorities and actions for the next three to five years. The existing ten-year plan, Shaping UBC’s Next Century, was launched in 2018 and since that time UBC has made great strides in advancing all aspects of it.

The world has changed a lot since 2018 and we need to continue to adapt. We are calling this process a ‘refresh’ because the intention is not to replace UBC’s strategic plan, but to define a series of priorities and actions focused on our core academic mission of teaching, learning and research. When both higher education and our broader society is faced with so many challenges, the time is right to consider UBC’s priorities as they relate to three broad objectives:

1. Envision what kind of university UBC strives to be over the next 25 years, to 2050.
2. Define shorter-term priorities and actions over the next three to five years, especially with regards to our core academic and research mission.
3. Continue to mobilize and support the achievement of existing institutional plans such as the Indigenous Strategic Plan, Strategic Equity and Anti-Racism (StEAR) Framework, as well as Faculty-level plans.

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